• Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada 

  Harvey, Gillian K. A.; Nelson, Trisalyn A.; Fox, Caroline H.; Paquet, Paul C. (Ecosphere, 2017)

  Global biodiversity is undergoing rapid decline due to direct and indirect anthropogenic impacts to species and ecosystems. Marine species, in particular, are experiencing accelerated population declines leading to many ...
• Society Is Ready for a New Kind of Science—Is Academia? 

  Keeler, Bonnie L.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Guerry, Anne D.; Addison, Prue F.E.; Bettigole, Charles; Burke, Ingrid C.; Gentry, Brad; Chambliss, Lauren; Young, Carrie; Travis, Alexander J.; Darimont, Chris T.; Gordon, Doria R.; Hellmann, Jessica; Kareiva, Peter; Monfort, Steve; Olander, Lydia; Profeta, Tim; Possingham, Hugh P.; Slotterback, Carissa; Sterling, Eleanor; Ticktin, Tamara; Vira, Bhaskar (BioScience, 2017)
• Intrapopulation diversity in isotopic niche over landscapes: Spatial patterns inform conservation of bear–salmon systems 

  Adams, Megan S.; Service, Christina N.; Bateman, Andrew; Bourbonnais, Mathieu; Artelle, Kyle A.; Nelson, Trisalyn; Paquet, Paul C.; Levi, Taal; Darimont, Chris T. (Ecosphere, 2017)

  Intrapopulation variability in resource acquisition (i. e., niche variation) influences population dynamics, with important implications for conservation planning. Spatial analyses of niche variation within and among ...
• International students, immigration and earnings growth: the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education 

  Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian (IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017)

  While destination-country education provides many potential advantages for immigrants, empirical studies in Australia, Canada and the USA have produced mixed results on the labour outcomes of immigrants who are former ...
• Computational Models of Anterior Cingulate Cortex: At the Crossroads between Prediction and Effort 

  Vassena, Eliana; Holroyd, Clay B.; Alexander, William H. (Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017)

  In the last two decades the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has become one of the most investigated areas of the brain. Extensive neuroimaging evidence suggests countless functions for this region, ranging from conflict ...
• A synthesis of thermokarst lake water balance in high-latitude regions of North America from isotope tracers 

  MacDonald, Lauren A.; Wolfe, Brent B.; Turner, Kevin W.; Anderson, Lesleigh; Arp, Christopher D.; Birks, S. Jean; Bouchard, Frédéric; Edwards, Thomas W.D.; Farquharson, Nicole; Hall, Roland I.; McDonald, Ian; Narancic, Biljana; Ouimet, Chantal; Pienitz, Reinhard; Tondu, Jana; White, Hilary (Arctic Science, 2017)

  Numerous studies utilizing remote sensing imagery and other methods have documented that thermokarst lakes are undergoing varied hydrological transitions in response to recent climate changes, from surface area expansion ...
• Slush-Ice Berm Formation on the West Coast of Alaska 

  Eerkes-Medrano, Laura; Atkinson, David E.; Eicken, Hajo; Nayokpuk, Bill; Sookiayak, Harvey; Engott, Eddie; Weyapuk, Winton Jr (Arctic, 2017)

  Some coastal communities in western Alaska have observed the occurrence of "slush-ice berms." These features typically form during freeze-up, when ice crystal-laden water accumulates in piles on the shore. Slush-ice berms ...
• Vegetation Succession and Environmental Conditions following Catastrophic Lake Drainage in Old Crow Flats, Yukon 

  Lantz, Trevor C. (Arctic, 2017)

  Increases in the frequency and magnitude of disturbances associated with the thawing of ice-rich permafrost highlight the need to understand long-term vegetation succession in permafrost environments. This study uses field ...
• A Content Analysis of Health and Safety Communications Among Internet-Based Sex Work Advertisements: Important Information for Public Health 

  Kille, Julie; Bungay, Vicky; Oliffe, John; Atchison, Chris (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2017)

  Background: The capacity to advertise via the Internet continues to contribute to the shifting dynamics in adult commercial sex work. eHealth interventions have shown promise to promote Internet-based sex workers' health ...
• Climate-driven thaw of permafrost preserved glacial landscapes, northwestern Canada 

  Kokelj, Steven V.; Lantz, Trevor C.; Tunnicliffe, Jon; Segal, Rebecca; Lacelle, Denis (Geology, 2017-04)

  Ice-marginal glaciated landscapes demarcate former boundaries of the continental ice sheets. Throughout circumpolar regions, permafrost has preserved relict ground ice and glacigenic sediments, delaying the sequence of ...
• Association of lifelong exposure to cognitive reserve-enhancing factors with dementia risk: A community-based cohort study 

  Wang, Hui-Xin; MacDonald, Stuart W. S.; Dekhtyar, Serhiy; Fratiglioni, Laura (PLoS Medicine, 2017-03)

  Background Variation in the clinical manifestation of dementia has been associated with differences in cognitive reserve, although less is known about the cumulative effects of exposure to cognitive reserve factors over ...
• Why men trophy hunt 

  Darimont, Chris T.; Codding, Brian F.; Hawkes, Kristen (Biology Letters, 2018-03)
• Predictions from machine learning ensembles: Marine bird distribution and density on Canada’s Pacific coast 

  Fox, Caroline Hazel; Huettmann, F. H.; Harvey, G. K. A.; Morgan, K. H.; Robinson, J.; Williams, R.; Paquet, P. C. (Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2017)

  Increasingly disrupted and altered, the world's oceans are subject to immense and intensifying anthropogenic pressures. Of the biota inhabiting these ecosystems, marine birds are among the most threatened. For conservation ...
• Anthropological Contributions to Historical Ecology: 50 Questions, Infinite Prospects 

  Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Shoemaker, Anna C.; McKechnie, Iain; Ekblom, Anneli; Szabó, Péter; Lane, Paul J.; McAlvay, Alex C.; Boles, Oliver J.; Walshaw, Sarah; Petek, Nik; Gibbons, Kevin S.; Morales, Erendira Quintana; Anderson, Eugene N.; Ibragimow, Aleksandra; Podruczny, Grzegorz; Vamosi, Jana C.; Marks-Block, Tony; LeCompte, Joyce K.; Awâsis, Sākihitowin; Nabess, Carly; Sinclair, Paul; Crumley, Carole L. (PLoS One, 2017-02)

  This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative ...
• Concurrent Indicators of Gait Velocity and Variability Are Associated with 25-Year Cognitive Change: A Retrospective Longitudinal Investigation 

  MacDonald, Stuart W. S.; Hundza, Sandra; Love, Janet A.; DeCarlo, Correne A.; Halliday, Drew W. R.; Brewster, Paul W. H.; Lukyn, Timothy V.; Camicioli, Richard; Dixon, Roger A. (Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2017-02)

  Background/Objectives: Physical function indicators, including gait velocity, stride time and step length, are linked to neural and cognitive function, morbidity and mortality. Whereas cross-sectional associations are well ...
• Political Leadership of the European Central Bank 

  Verdun, Amy (Journal of European Integration, 2017)

  What role did the European Central Bank (ECB) play in EU governance, regarding the financial, the economic and sovereign debt crises? How should we understand ECB leadership from a theoretical perspective? Based on speeches, ...
• Political leadership in the European Union: An introduction 

  Tömmel, Ingeborg; Verdun, Amy (Journal of European Integration, 2017)

  In light of recent crises in the European Union (EU) there is a need for more systematic analysis of political leadership in the EU, which is what we seek to do in this collection. This introduction offers a theoretical ...
• Advancing social-ecological research through teaching: Summary, observations, and challenges 

  Ban, Natalie C.; Cox, Michael (Ecology and Society, 2017)
• Adaptation to a landscape-scale mountain pine beetle epidemic in the era of networked governance: The enduring importance of bureaucratic institutions 

  Abrams, Jesse B.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi R.; Bone, Chistopher; Grummon, Christine; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecology and Society, 2017)

  Landscape-scale forest disturbance events have become increasingly common worldwide under the combined influences of climate change and ecosystem modification. The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonusponderosae) epidemic ...
• Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina 

  Taylor, Ariel; Bonner, Michelle D. (Latin American Research Review, 2017)

  Since the 1980s, liberalized and newly stable markets have helped usher in an unprecedented mining boom across the Latin American region. However, despite the fact that this boom contributes to notable economic growth, ...

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